Learning Quote by Francis Bacon Sr

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

— Francis Bacon

Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas…

— Anonymous

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

— John Henry Newman

There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.

— Michel de Montaigne

Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.

— Roger L'Estrange

The views of men can only be known, or guessed at, by their words or actions.

— George Washington

Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking…

— Henry Thomas Buckle

“Men's views of things are the result of their understanding alone. Their conduct is regulated by their understanding, their temper, and their passions.”

— David Hume

The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold.

— John Stuart Mill

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by…

— Anonymous

When men exercise their reason coolly and freely, on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions, on some of them.…

— James Madison